Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1938 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOC RAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Inc»r|>ora<e« Altered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Class Mutter J. H. Heller President It. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HollerVice-President Subscription Rates: (Single copies 1 -0One week, by carrier ——— .10 One year, by carrier .— 5.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mail — 1.75 One year, by mall 3.00 One year, at office—— 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Through newspaper advertising you can reach everyone, everywhere, at any and all times. She’s not the cartoonist’s daughter, but believe It or not, Lesley Hyde Ripley s coming out party cost her mother $75,000. Governor Davey carried 67 of the 88 Ohio counties and still lost the nomination. His opponent won by carrying the big industrial cities and counties. Chicago is having gang warfare again. Nine men have been killed in cold blood. The police arc stalked, because suspects will not talk. If the gangs kill each other, there will not be any work to do. The fourth victim was added to the death toll of the tragic auto accident, with the death of Miss Linda Niehaus of Angola, an employe of the Westinghouse radio station in Fort Wayne. A talented young woman, only 23 years of age, she was also riding in the auto in which Detlef Petersen was killed. The whole affair is a terrible shock to the community and expressions of sympathy to the bereaved families heal little the sorrow and grief which has come to them. The Public Works Administration has approved a grant of $25,363 toward the construction of the nurse’s home at the Adams County Memorial hospital. Federal approval of the grant was speedily made. The local financing of the county's share, $55,650, will be submitted to taxpayers in the form of petitions and if the legal details can be met and disposed of in the time alloted, steps will proceed rapidly toward the construction of the new building. It’s up to the people to decide. The three young Modoc men, David and Howard Myers and Harold Grubbs, who rescued the bodies from the wrecked automobiles, deserve the credit and commendation that has been bestowed on them. Those injured in the wreck may have been consumed in the gasoline flames which enveloped one of the cars had it not been for the young men who worked heroically to rescue them. It was a good deed. They proved to be real American boys with the Samaritan spirit. So many attention - gripping events happen from day to day that we little realize that several wars are going on. On the front page of a day's paper we read the following headlines, telling of wars or forcasting them: Europe Roused by Massing of Teuton Troops; Franco Present at last Phase; Anti Japanese Attacks Tense Shanghai Anew; New Incident Perils Truce. Although no formal declarations have been made, wars are being carried on in China and along its boarders; in Spain and along the Czech border. We’re not trying to sell clocks, nor do we have any financial interest in a jewelry store or clock

factory, but the question has been asked if we know what a new dock would cost for the court house tower. It was recalled by the party who made the inquiry, that because of the exposed clock t face and hands, sleet and snow settled on the mechanism and pre- ' vented it from running In the j winter time. Mention was made of last winter’s experience. A , storm front might be put over the I dials, protecting them from the 1 elements. The town clock is a ’ convenience to a lot of people. i The primaries and state convert- ' tions will be over next month and then there will be six weeks of intensive campaigning before the November election. The congress- j khial races In the states will make, the campaigns the hottest in his-1 tory. In Indiana the big guns will be fired the latter part of this month. | followed by a respite until after Labor Day and then the drive upj until election. The New Deal pro-, gram will be the issue in the con-| gressional races and in some of I the gubernatorial fights. In the county, township and city elections, local issues, party affiliation and the personality of candidates: will control. It promises to be a 1 busy fall with a lot of politics and political talk thrown in. Have the American people outgrown the old circus? Has other entertainment, the movies, thej radio, floor shows and we might I include the automobile, taken the i place of the wild animal show, the | elephants and tigers, the bare back riders and the aerialists? Nearly all the big circuses have gone back | to winter quarters because of financial difficulties. The Ringling Brothers show pulled in when the matter of wages could not be adjusted and now the Cole and Robbins circuses are forming a merger, part of the two shows going back to quarters. Is it that cir-l cuses are too expensive these 1 days, or have we lost the thrill of, taking the kids, buying a fewsacks of peanuts, climbing up on the board seats and in awe watch the three and five-ring exhibitions? i - = NOW THE ‘DUSTLESS BOWL": The great area in the southwest; known as the "dust bowl’’ has' ceased to be a serious economic ' problem, according to advices from < Washington. For the last eight l years the region has been plagued 11 by winds that threatened to de-' plete 97,000,000 acres of valuable j topsoil. The public is familiar | with pictures of drifting sands that' buried vegetation and piled up in huge drifts reminiscent of winter blizzards. Even Indiana has experienced several dust storms, the remnant of dirt clouds that blotted out the sun in the states most affected. It is good news for the entire country, therefore, to learn that nature once more Is smiling on the region. The "blows” are ended, at least temporarily, with the heaviest rainfall in years. Wheat, corn and other crops have flourished. The abundance of corn has! created marked optimism among, live stock producers, and prosper- j ity at last seems to be returning I to that part of the country. Soil conservation experts fear I that the good fortune of farmers j this season may tend to upset efforts to redeem the dust bowl sector. Much of the progress achieved, the conservationists point out, will be nullified if farmers return to the former "gambling type” of agriculture. This lerm is used to describe the tendency of plowing up grassy areas and taking a chance that another season , of ample moisture will produce I . abundant returns. The loose top-1 I soil should be "tied down' with i j grass and other plants. [' The farmers take whi/t gamblers ['know as a long shot in assuming that rainfall will be sufficient to [ prevent further dust storms. If j . that risk proves unfortunate, the - region will be further denuded and 1 t its population will be clamoring I

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for additional government relief, j If the moisture content of the soil is low, the government experts advise the type of farming that will minimize the dust storms. Officials report that 26,000,000 of 32,000,000 acres under cultivation in areas chiefly subject to dust storms are now sufficiently "tied I down’’ to permit a reasonable de-1 gree of prosperity for the resident I population, it is gratifying to note ; that bumper crops in the region are matching the general prospects of heavy yields. Prices may de- ! dine somewhat, but abundance ■ still is preferable to the specious argument that prosperity can be promoted through scarcity. — Indianapolis Star. ♦ J Answers To Test | Questions ! Below are the answers to the I Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ ♦ 1. Portugal. 2. Panama Canal Zone. 3. In the royal Rumanian tomb at Kurtea de Argesch. 4. Solid, liquid and gaseous. 5. Danmark. 6. Woodrow Wilson. 7. Melanism. 8. British West Indies. 9. The race is exclusively forl three year olds. 10. Coffer dam. 1. The St. Lawrence. 2. To make perfumes. 3. Polo. 4. Freddie Steele. 3. Polyandry. 6. Moon. 7. Two cents. 8. MCMXXXVIII. 9. New York. 10. Hydrometer. : Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Waterproof Fabric To make ordinary fabric water- ! proof dissolve equal parts of isinglass, alum, and soap separately in water. Then mix the three, and brush the mixture on the wrong' side of the cloth. Salt in the Starch It is advisable on windy days to 1 add a little salt to the sterch to prevent its being blown out of the; ' clothes while they are drying. Lemon Syrup Lemon syrup is made iby adding i iwo-thirds of a cup of lemon juice to one cup of sugar syrup. Strain i this into a bottle and keep it in the | I refrigerator. Use one part of this j syrup to six parte of ice water, and I the result will be a delicious drink. : g ...- r 7 Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE Q. Is it all right for a young wo- ! man, when registering at a hotel, ito omit her Christian name, and merely sign. (Miss) Young? A. It is all right, if she is travel-

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ing with her parents, and is the I only daughter. If she is traveling alone, she should register as (Miss) I Alice Young. Detroit, Mich. Omit I the street address. Q. How long should a Sunday dinner guest remain after the meal. is finished? A. Not longer than an hour, uu-' less plans have been made for sum; ; I afternoon entertainment. | Q. What is the first wedding annl- 1 j versary? A. Gifts of cotton are appropriate for the first anniversary. * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY I From the Dally Democrat File | August 15—Germans are retreating along a 9-mile front at the FlanI ders salient. Fred Linn is awarded contract for i school house in district 8, Blue I Creek township, Hisey and Bebout. get the one in district 2. Fred Ash- • caucher lands heating contracts. Edward C. Braun. H. H. Linne- : meire, Harry S. Crownover and Walter C. Oliver go to Indianapolis i ■ to report for military duties. Ralph : Miller and John L. McCrory go to Cincinnati. President Wilson and Colonel 1 ■ —

Embrace—Then Goodbye for Life ® * nf » i a gy tr j-ggy x jp! II WHO >1 fi' r msJB W ■ i - i : I > Francis Carroll, ex-deputy sheriff of South Paris, Me., convicted of the 1 murder of Dr. James M.'Littlefield, is pictured embracing his sobbing wife befoie being taken tb-prison "for the rest of his natural life.” A moment as ter this picture was taken, Mrs. Carroll collapsed. j _

I House confer on important matters ! ■at Magnolia, Mass. i Joshua Parrish observed his 83rd I birthday yesterday. | FREu W. BRAUN | O f JHe Sa(eitj‘Slan , We have repeatedly mentlonod in , jthis column that the one thing need- j ed by drivers today in more cour-1 tesy. Place a little more trust in i your own ability to drive, and make j that ability live up to the trust you have place din yourself. A great many of our traffic acci-, dents could be .prevented if people only would realize that they cannot depend upon the other fellow doing the thing which common sense, or the law, or courtesy dictates should be done. In other words, in driving today youn cannot trust anybody but your self. Courtesy pays. 500 Sheets B’ixll, 20-lb. White Automatic Mimeograph Bond $1.05. 500 Sheets B'/ 2 x 11.16-lb. Special Mimeograph, White 35c. The Decatur Democrat Co. ts

HALF MILLION PAYMENIS MADE ■■ II ■ < $5,750,000 Paid In Indiana Under Unemployment Compensation Fort Wayne, Aug. 15. — More than halt a million unemployment compensation benefit checks have been paid in Indiana, representing more than $5,750,000 in replacement of I I lost wages to workers insured un- ( der the state unemployment comi pensation law, the Indiana unem- . ployinent compensation division announced today. "At the close of business August 10. a total of 508.692 checks aggregating $5,784,390.56 had been rnail-i |ed to totally and partially unemployed workers in the state since . benefit payment "began in the last, I week in April,” said E. F. Kixmil- j : ler, deputy in charge of unemployI ineut compensation in the local state unemploymet onffice. "We are now in the 16th week of I benefit payments and already 33,,159 checks totaling $411,693.05 i I have been mailed to insured workI ers in Allen. Wells, Whitley and . i northern Adams counties, which . ■ comprise the Fort Wayne district. , ■ Each check has covered a week I |of total or partial unemployment | for one week. To date 6.755 have ! filed claims in this section since i April 1. I “About 650 claimants who have I been drawing benefits were added | to the re-employment list in this, district in the last two weeks, 300 of them going back to their jobs last week, division records indicate. The total returned to em-' j ployment is now 1.550 >n this sec- , tion and about 23,000 in the state. Os the latter number, there were 5,700 who received benefits for the | week ending July 30 and went back to work last week. "Meanwhile benefit payments i have been below the peak of $48,I 217.40 established for the district I three weeks ago. Last week 3- 1 I 835 checks for 746 944.09 were | paid to claimants in this territory. I Out of the total of $2,528,791.25 paid hi the state in July, beneficiaries in this section received $174,405.93. "The trend of new claims continues downward with only 2951 I last week in this district and 4.090 i in the etate. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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CAFE OWNER IS I SHOT TO DEATH New Albany Man Held As Murderer Os Case Proprietor New Albany, Ind., Aug. 15.—<U.R> — MClvin "Monk” Harris, 33, was lield today for the murder of Lee , Hess, 41, case propriteor, who was shot to death in his restaurant Sat-. i urday after a quarrel with Harris. Police eaid Harris had been drinking throughout the day and became belligerent on an Ohio river excursion boat party given by the county Democratic committee. After the boat landed Harris , went to Hess, restaurant, police said, and struck at the proprietor with brass knuckles. Hess and several employes evicted him. Harris then hired Otis Shireman, a taxi driver, and went 'to his home, obtained a 12 guage shotgun and ordered Shireman to drive him back to Hess restaurant. Harris’ wife pleaded with Shireman to ' take her husband to the police sta-

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